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Andrew TillettForeign affairs, defence correspondentMay 9, 2025 – 1.38pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Adam Bandt entered politics in 2010 as a kingmaker, one of an expanded crossbench that helped prop up Julia Gillard’s minority government, the first federal hung parliament since the 1940s.

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Updated May 8, 2025 – 2.58pm, first published at 7.08am or Subscribe to save article12 mins ago – 2.58PMJacinta Nampijinpa Price defects to Liberal Party, seeks a senior roleNorthern Territory Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has defected to the Liberal Party. In a shock move that may have implications for the party’s leadership structure, Price said she believed she could make a greater contribution to the Coalition by leaving the Nationals.

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Andrew TillettForeign affairs, defence correspondentMay 7, 2025 – 6.35pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The Albanese government believes a deal can still be struck with the White House to lift tariffs on Australian exports to the US, despite President Donald Trump hosing down the prospect of sweeping agreements to end his global trade war.

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Andrew TillettForeign affairs, defence correspondentMay 7, 2025 – 10.43am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Labor MPs are clinging to narrow leads in three of the party’s safest seats while the teal challenge to the Liberals continues to fade as counting resumes on Wednesday.

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Andrew TillettForeign affairs, defence correspondentMay 5, 2025 – 7.18pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Tactical voting by Jewish Australians helped one of Labor’s endangered MPs stave off a Greens challenge in a seat where feeling over the war in Gaza and criticism of the Albanese government’s response to rising antisemitism was among the strongest in the country.